I'll have to check into that cuz here in iowa, we have a ton of these things, and the last 3 years have been drought years(21-24), with this year in particular having very strange weather all year round for the seasons
I know...I live in Northern Ill and in the past few years, we have been having extremely dry spring times and its very unusual. We are riddled with lots of windmills. Just think about it...when a basement gets flooded, we get the water out, then put fans in to pull the moisture out of the floors, and dry them out. All a windmill is, is a giant fan. Talk about weather modification! I think the article was in an old email that I received. I'll try to find it.
… so if they’re spinning from the wind blowing past them, they’re slowing down the wind.
This would mean that humidity wouldn’t end up where it should, and that the air, from slowing down, would back up other air behind it, like a giant speedbump.
So the rain would stay farther out from the inland.
The question would not be if that happens, but how significant it would be?
...lemme back up and explain my train of thought...
First you mentioned the turbines slowing the air down, which got me thinking about where the humid air goes, or more tot he point, where it doesn't.
this immediately brought up north carolina in my head, which in turn, then you mentioned how significant it would be, and I started thinking; imagine all that hot, humid air, trapped over the gulf of mexico, getting the energy it would normaly use to move bled off so it can't really go anywhere, until a high enough pressure system comes along, pouring enough cold air that it finally forms a hurricane....
Normally, hurricanes don't come very far inland, because they lose force as they come over land, and just turn into heavy rains and work themselves out, but I see two possible scenarios here, depending on how milton operated (I don't know nearly enough about the exact details of the storm to do more than guess);
the storm had enough energy to stay a tropical storm/hurricane as it made landfall, working its way into areas that normally have heavy rainfall after a hurricane, but never see the wind blow through, ravaging everything in their path.
like normal, the storm settled down to ordinary storm clouds, but because it had so much hot, humid air as it made its way northward, it was able to drop a metric fuckton of rain, creating the floods we see todya, without necessarily flinging somebody's tractor into the next zipcode...
There's other possibilities as well, but those are the ones that initially occurred to me...
And The Germans and Chinese have discovered that they dry out the land and cause droughts.
I'll have to check into that cuz here in iowa, we have a ton of these things, and the last 3 years have been drought years(21-24), with this year in particular having very strange weather all year round for the seasons
I know...I live in Northern Ill and in the past few years, we have been having extremely dry spring times and its very unusual. We are riddled with lots of windmills. Just think about it...when a basement gets flooded, we get the water out, then put fans in to pull the moisture out of the floors, and dry them out. All a windmill is, is a giant fan. Talk about weather modification! I think the article was in an old email that I received. I'll try to find it.
… so if they’re spinning from the wind blowing past them, they’re slowing down the wind.
This would mean that humidity wouldn’t end up where it should, and that the air, from slowing down, would back up other air behind it, like a giant speedbump.
So the rain would stay farther out from the inland.
The question would not be if that happens, but how significant it would be?
...hurricane milton comes to mind...
...lemme back up and explain my train of thought...
First you mentioned the turbines slowing the air down, which got me thinking about where the humid air goes, or more tot he point, where it doesn't.
this immediately brought up north carolina in my head, which in turn, then you mentioned how significant it would be, and I started thinking; imagine all that hot, humid air, trapped over the gulf of mexico, getting the energy it would normaly use to move bled off so it can't really go anywhere, until a high enough pressure system comes along, pouring enough cold air that it finally forms a hurricane....
Normally, hurricanes don't come very far inland, because they lose force as they come over land, and just turn into heavy rains and work themselves out, but I see two possible scenarios here, depending on how milton operated (I don't know nearly enough about the exact details of the storm to do more than guess);
There's other possibilities as well, but those are the ones that initially occurred to me...